The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-03-17
THE RAILROAD.
THE QUESTION SOON TO BEBROUGHr
TO AN ISSUE.
The election Order-Offcial Notification
| of the Vote to take place April 18th,
| 1887.


of the Vote to take place April 18th,
1887.
At regular meeting of the Board of
Commissioners for the County of Forsyth,
North Carolina, at the Court House in
Winston, Y. c., on Monday, March 9TH,
1887, it being the first Monday, the mem
bers of the Board, to-wit: A Z. onrad,
chairman, T. J. Valentine and John W.
Fries present and acting. 1t appearing to
the Board that a petition, signed by one
hundred free-holders and Taxpayers resid-
ing in Winston Township, in said county, is
presented to the Board under the provisions
of an Act of the General Assembly passed
and ratified at the session of 1887, entitled
an Act "to enable Townships of Forsyth
county to aid in Internal improvements
to submit to the qualified voters of said
Winston Townshlpa proposition to subscribe
the sum of sixty thousand dollars (S60,000)
in Winston Township bonds to the capital
stock of the North Western North Carolina
Railroad Company; and it appearing TO the
Board that the said petition is regular and
as prescribed by law: Now it is ordered,
That it be submitted to the qualified voters
of Winston Township the question of
subscription " or " no subscri ption" of the
sum OF sixty thousand dollars 100000 in
Winston Township bonds, at their face value,
to the capital stock of the North Western
North Carolina Railroad Company, for the
extension of said Railroad from the town of
Winston, in Forsyth county, to or near the
town OF Wilkesboro, in Wilkes county,
North Carolina, up the Yadkin Valley.
The said subscri ption to be paid for in bonds
of Winston Township, at their face value,
said bonds to bear interest at the rate of six
per cent per annum, and to run for period
of forty years, interest payable semi-annu-
aly-interest to begin to run only from the
time of delivery of said bonds-and the said
Township receiving certificates of stock ia
said Railroad Company for the same amount
as the amount of bonds SO issued, said bonds
to be placed in the hands of Trustee to be
delivered to said Railroad Company on the
orders Of this Board as follows, to-wit
$4,000 when said Railroad shall have been
built, equipped and trains running to point
ten miles from Winston SIS, 900 when said
Road shall have been built, equipped and
trains running to point twenty miles from
Winston 5000 when said Road shall
have been built, equipped and trains run
ming to point thirty miles from Winston,
and S15, 900 when said Road shall have been
built, equipped and trains running to a
point forty miles from Winston.
Active work of construction on. said Road
shall be begun within six months from the
date of said election, and said road COM
pleted within four years from the date of
said election, as prescribed in the petition
filed before this Board. And as soon as one
section is completed, work to be commenced
upon another section, until the whole work
is completed.
In order that the qualified voters of said
Township may vote said question, an
election is hereby ordered to be held at the
regular voting precincts in Winston and
Salem, in said Township on the 18th day of
April, 1887 at which election all the quail
fed voters in said Township shall have the
right to vote. The ballots shall be either
printed or written, and shall be cast as in
general elections, and those in favor of sub
scription, under the conditions and stipula-
tions hereinbefore set forth, shall vote a
ballot wherein Is written or printed {" sub
scription," and those opposed shall vote
g no subscription
That w. III. Clarke and Jacob Use, for
Winston precinct and Augustus Fogle and
NJ. n. Vogler, for Salem precinct, are here
by appointed Judges or Poll holders, and
who shall provide boxes for their respective
precincts, and hold said election and make
returns as required by law.
1t is further ordered, that Martin Grogan
for Winston, and n. L. Shore for Salem
precincts, be appointed Registrars in said
Township, Who shall be furnished with the
registration books of said Township pre-
cincts, and who shall give due notice of the
opening of the same for registration of each
qualified voter of said Township as are not
already registered Said books shall be
kept open for thirty days next previous to
the election.
1t shall be the duty of the Judges and
Registrars to see that such persons names as
are not qualified voters of the Township be
erased from the registry, and they shall
meet with the Registrars at Winston and
Salem on the 18th day of April, 1887, for
that purpose.
1t is further ordered, tn at such poll hold
ers shall make return of said vote on the
18th day of April, 1887, to the Board.
1t is further ordered, that this order be
spread upon the minutes of the proceedings
of the Board by the Clerk thereof.
A. E. CONRAD, Chairman.
J TH VS. F :; VALENTINE commis'ers.
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